My hopes for RegexBlogs

[ cross-posted on http://regexblogs.com/DNeimke ]

If this entry has landed in your email/aggregator/browser and you'd like a home to express your regex thoughts regularly, please contact me via my contact form and I can set you up. Likewise, if you know of a keen regex'er of any flavour, please mention this offer to them.

One of my biggest hopes is that, over time many Java, Ruby and Perl regex afficionado's will maintain a blog there.

Aside from the obvious daily|weekly rant-style postings, I'd love to see the follow types of blogs start to appear:

• Blogging while reading Jeff Friedl's Mastering Regex book; I know that I wish I had. I can still remember - vividly in fact - sitting on the bus, reading the book and crying out "NO, he's wrong! It doesn't work that way"! Alas, many of those thoughts are either lost between pages 1 and 420 or, simply left behind on the bus.
• Anybody that has written about or taught regular expressions.
• Anybody invloved with regex either on the .NET Framework or Mono projects
• Anybody that has had to construct regex's for mission-critical app's - such as the ASP.NET parser that tokenizes webforms.

I trust that, in time the regex blogging community will flourish into an energetic place from which new regex ideas, thoughts and concepts are derived!